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PREFACE. 



opposes what it does not understand.— Bacon. 

fing this pamphlet the author is prepared to meet ad- 
verse ciiticism in good spirit. That there is no literary merit in it, 
style, finish, or even correct arrangement of the matter, he admits- 
but still these blemishes of art do not deter him from presenting^ 
the work and doing, as he believes, the public a service. The peri- 
helia of the four great planets is a subject of monientous iraportj 
ana any one knowing any facts relative to or bearing on this ap- 
proaching epoch should give them to the world. The horrors and 
magnitude of the coming events are not exaggerated. The plaguo 
will bo here in America the latter part of 1880, unless strict quaran- 
tine and sanitary measures are adopted. I have strictly adhered 
to the rules of Placidas de Titus, the best author on Mundane As- 
trology, without introducing the technical figures »f the science. 
Astrology is a veritable science, and should be universally under- 
stood. It is a truth, for the heavens do not lie. Every Astrological 
question propounded is answered by mathematical formula. Those 
who predict events by cards, crystals and the parphernalia of "for- 
tune tellers," are cheats who bring odium upon the true science. 
Astrology has no connection with fortune-telling any more than 
surgery has with surveying. No one can comprehend the beautiful 
mysteries of Astrology, or work out its intricate, abstruse problemp, 
without a knowledge of trigonometry and the porportion of num- 
bers. I append a partial list of the eminent personages wbos© 
teachings have benefitted mankind as well as shedding lustre on the 
science of Astrology by their staunch advocacy of its doctrines. 
Here is the galaxy of glorious names: Ptolemy, Placidus, Thales, 
Hyppocrates, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle. Socrates, Galen, Jose- 
phus, Cicero, Kepler, Bacon, Napier and Zadkiel. To the enemies 
of Astrology 1 have nothing to say. I once opposed it, and can 
understand how unjust prejudice is. Let them keep a record of tho 
events predicted by tho author, and if that does nol convince them 
of its truth, nothing will. I have written this work to' warn the 
country to prepare for tho darkest epoch in the world's history. 
The municipal authorities of every seaport should use every pre- 
caution to prevent the plague obtaining foothold. I have written 
in haste, for the fate of nations often depends on a moment. The 
plague cannot be cured, but this work gives specific directions, 
which, if followed by the reader, he can live and escape the malady 
in the worst-infected country. THE AUTHOB, 



The Voice of the Stars. 



CHAPTER T. 

It is pretty well undersiood that the perihelia of tht 
four great planets, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Sa 
turn, will be coincident in 1881. Astrology to-day ii- 
ridiculed by many so-called scientists. Affer 1880 As 
trology will be taught by many who reject it now. 
Bacon says <'the world opposes what it does not under- 
stand/' In the case of Astrology this is pre-eminently 
80. I have no desire to discuss the verity or falsity of 
Astrology; I simply state the effects which the ap- 
proaching perihelia will produce according to Astrologi- 
cal deductions. The effects which this conjunction will 
produce are momentous, From 1880 to 1887 will be one 
universal carnival of death. No place on earth will be 
entirely free from the plague. The Pacific Coast will 
not suffer anything in comparison to any other portion of 
globe. The coincidence of these planets in perihelion 
will always produce ex^idemics and destructive diseases. 
Three of these planets are malifics, and Jupiter, although 
a benific, produces evil through association, or, techni- 
cally, by conjunction with the others. Diseases will 
appear, the nature of which will baffle the skill of the 
most eminent physicians. Every drop of water in th< 
earth, on the earth and above the earth, will be mor 
or less poisonous. The atmosphere will be foul with 
noisome odors, and there will be but few consti4;ution&* 
able to resist the coming scourge. Therefore prepare , 



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ye that are constitutionally weak and inteniperaiu and 
gluttonous, for *'nian's -last home — the grav^e." From 
the far East the pestilential storm will sweep, and its 
last struggle will end here in the far West. In 542 and 
16G5 three of the planets, two of w^hich were malifics 
(Mars and Saturn), were in perihelion, and Jupiter, 
though a benific, brought evil through association. 
Now 542 and 1665 were the worst plague eras of which 
the world has any record. From 542 to 546 it has been 
estimated that from 75,000,000 to 120,000,000 victims 
suffered death by the plague. [Gibbon's History, vol. 
III., chap. XLiii.; also Cousins' History Rome, vol. ii., 
p. 178.] 

In 1720, Mars and Saturn were in perihelion and in 
the sign Virgo, and 52,000 out of 75,000 inhabitants died 
in the city of Marseilles in less than five weeks. In 
544, 10,000 persons died each day in Constantinople. 
Alexandria (Egypt) lost, in 542, 50,000. and in 543, 80,- 
000 of her inhabitants by the plague. But as bad as 
were those times, they will only approximate the hor 
rors of the seven years many of us are doomed never 
to witness. All the weak and intemperate are sure to 
die. There is no escape from the inexorable plague 
iiend. Fortunate, indeed, are those whose blood is pure 
and free from any taint or weakness, for they alone will 
survive the wreck of the human family. The intern 
perate and weak will join hands and go down to their 
graves in tens of thousands. Ancient races will be 
blotted from the face of the earth. Asia will be nearly 
depopulated, and the islands that border Asia will suf- 
fer frightfully from the scourge. The countries that 
join the norttieastern portion of Asia will first sufier the 
ravages of the plague, Russia will be the first Euro- 
pean nation that will suifer. Many people labor under 
the impression that the plague will not reach America, 
This is a fatal delusion. Unless correct sanitary meas- 
ures are taken in 1880 the plague will be devastating 
large cities on the Atlantic coast of America. America 
will lose more than fifteen millions of inhabitants if the 



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sewers of her cities are as imperfect in 1880 as they are 
to-day. The drainage of every city must be perfected 
to entirely escape from this monster who fattens on foul 
matters and feasts on the decayed accumulations of 
stuffed sewers. All vaults should be cleaned and the 
strictest sanitary measuresadopted and rigidly enforced. 
Have we so soon forgotten the 15,000 who sleep in their 
graves, two-thirds of whom would^ be alive to-day had 
cleanliness predominated in those cities instead of rot- 
tonness, on which the yellow fever thrived? Memphis 
and Grenada have sewers to-day that are clogged a\id 
vaults filled with refuse matters within two feet of the 
surface. When society becomes too lazy or willfully neg- 
ligent in cleanliness it ought (oba afflicted with plagues. 
The perihelia will luring othei inflictions upon the in- 
habitants of this earth, over which mankind can exert 
no restraining influence. There will come storms and 
tidal waves tha*^ will swamp whole cities, earthquakes 
that will swallov\ mountains and towns, and tornadoes 
that will sweep hundreds of villages from the face of 
the earth; mountains will tremble, rotter and fall into 
sulphurous chasms; the geography of the earth will be 
changed by volcanic action, mountains will toss their 
rocky heads up through the choicest valleys; valleys 
will appear where mountains formerly stood; skillful 
mariners will be lost on the ocean, owing to the extraor- 
dinary ^^ariations of the compass; navigators will grow 
pale with alarm at the capricious deflexure of the needle; 
volcanoes that have been dormant for centuries will 
awaken to belch forth their lava with more violence 
than when in their pristine vigor; rainfalls will deluge 
valleys, and mountain streams will enlarge their beds 
and become mighty torrents; fires will start spontan- 
eously and devastate whole forests; great fires will oc- 
cur in many citiers, and some will be totally destroyed; 
there will be remarkable displays of electricity, fright- 
ful to witness; wild beasts will leave their natural haunts 
and crowd into populous cities, timid and harmless; 
suffocating fumes of sulphur will escape from the earthy 



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"^ to the great dread of many; an un precedent number of 
ships will be shattered in fragments by running on 
*> mighty rocks and small islands that are not down on 
t>f Ci.-^ navigator's chart; islands will appear and disappear 
wi? grt-»at an^^ apparent cause: the navigator's charts will 
provtre almost a detriment instead of an aid, owing to 
the 's sudden changes of ocean currents, temperature and 
;{»^^^oundings; the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, 
t^'and even the fish of the sea, will be diseased; billions 
of fish will die and be cast upon the seashore, to fester 
in the sun and impregnate the atmosphere with their 
^ foul emanations. No fish or animal food should be 
si eaten from 1882 till 1885 in America, for the flesh of 
l^i\ early all the Animal Kingdom and the finny tribes that 
Uiap'^[iabit the rivers, streams, lakes and oceans will be 
diseased, and therefore those who partake of the flesh 
shall poison their blood and be taken away shortly after. 
The poison that enters the system by eaten diseased meats 
is just as deadly as to be inoculated with the plague. 
Farmers will be so stricken with fear that they will 
cease to till their farms, and gaunt famine will .step in 
to make human misery more wretched; fanaticism will 
spring up in many places and bloodshed will result 
therefrom; murderers and robbers will ply their hellish 
work with impunity, for there will be little or no law; 
every one will be absorbed with the trying task of keep- 
ing alive; people will be buried in deep trenches, un- 
co (fined; the Judge will be stricken from the bench, the 
pleader at the bar, and the merchant and customer will 
be seized with the fatal inalady while trading: death 
will come slow and lingering in some cases, but in most 
it will be swift and terrible. lu seaboard tow^ns thous- 
ands will be buried in the bays and harbors, the law to 
the contrary notwithstanding. 

CHAPTER II. 

In many countries vast districts will be deserted, and 
even in this country some portions will appear so near 



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that condition as to appal the traveler. One may walli 
whole days over hundreds of farms without seeing ^ 
living thing. On all the large tracts of land that a slM 
were so animated with animal life, not a vestige y^ ^ai J 
seen. The houses on the deserted ranches \^1x>f 
signs of disarrangement and negligence that ^p\ 
tells of the hurried departure of the owners to the pol?»fc 
lous cities. Let the traveler pursue his way till he comH 
to the small villages, many of v/hich will not contain a' 
single living thing. Let him look into the houses; let 
him jiass through the doors that stand ajar and witnes,* 
the sickening spectacle of whole families dead. Lj 
him still wander, if he yet have courage, through t^ 
country stricken with the black death, and in the fie^ 
on the hillside, and in the dark canyons of the mou^. 
tains, and he will see every phase of this terrible ma- 
lady, till the culminating point of death is reached — the 
end of all attacked with this incurable disease. This 
state of things will be more apparent in the Atlantic 
States than here. 

The country people will flee to the crowded cities for 
aid, but unless they are rich the physicians will give 
them little if any attention. The poor will die by the 
tens of thousands, without a ministering hand to soothe 
their dying agonies. The doctors will be in universal 
demand and extortionate in charges for their services. 
Bear in mind, no medicine or doctor can give you any 
more aid than you can yourself. The disease cannot be 
cured, but unless your system is too weak or impure, 
copious draughts of warm wat^r and a vegetarian diet 
will prevent the disease poisoning the blood in the pro- 
cess of digestion. Animal food will poison those who 
continue the use of it. Fine cotton or sponge dipped 
into spirits of camphor and kept in the nostrils, and 
frequently changed, will prevent the blood from being 
poisoned through the organs of respi^'ation. Many 
people will think that the total destruction of animal 
life will occur during this era of plague. After the 
black death there will be two years of fire, which will 



THE VOICE OF THE STARS. 10 

rage with fury in all parts of the world from 1885 to 
1887. These fires will be the means of annihilating 
every germ of disease. In fact, every city or portion 
of city in which the plague appears should be burned to 
the ground. This will destroy the scourge. Nothing 
but fire will do it. Those who pass through these terrible 
years of woe will have greater capacity for the enjoy- 
ment of the pleasures of earth. The earth will yield 
twice as much as formerly. All the Animal Kingdom 
will be more prolific and life more prolonged. The 
average duration of life is said to be thirty-three years 
now; after the j^ear 1887 it will be twice as long, or sixty- 
six years. The reason of this most remarkable pro- 
longation of life is owing to the healthy electricity or 
magnetism that will surround this globe. From 1880 to 
1887 the electricity of this earth will be deadly, owing to 
the malific influence of Saturn and Uranus upon our 
atmosphere. During th© black death the most wonderful 
celestial phenomena will be seen. For weeks the sun 
will appear red as blood, and terrible convulsions will 
appear in that great body. The sun will discharge 
oceans of flaming hydrogen gases, that will roll in tu- 
multuous billows hundreds of thousands of miles from 
its center. The moon's actions on the tides will 
be spasmodic and irregular. Tremendous showers 
of meteors will fall to the earth and remain in an in- 
candescent state for hours. Dense black clouds will 
veil the sun for days, and the moon will not shed as 
bright or steady light as before those dreadful days. 
The whole heavens and earth will tremble at the awful, 
continuous reports of thunder — lasting frequentl}^ for 
hours; blinding flashes of lightning will illume the 
black sky; people will scream with horror at the fan- 
tastic shapes the lightning will assume; thousands will 
go insane with fear of the celestial phenomena; all modes 
of egress from the cities will be stopped; trains will be 
stopped on the prairies, in the mountains and valleys, 
and their occupants will die in them of disease and starv- 
ation; steamships and sailing crafts will rot on the oceans 
with their dead human freight, drifting where the winda 



11 THE VOICE OF THE STARS, 

and waves may take them. Stout will be the heartsl 
that will not despair in those dreafiil times. Fanaticsl 
will arise and cry out that the hand of God is againstl 
mankind, and religious frenzy will be rampant in alll 
the large cities; so-called prophets will incite their fol- 
io w*^rs to deeds of blood and rapine, but they will not 
hold sway long; insanity from religious causes will pre- 
dominate in those times; the mortality in the cities where 
sewerage is defective will be appalling; everything that 
is ate or drank should be boiled well before being used; 
no cooked food or water should be partaken of if al- 
lowed to be exposed to the air for even a quai'ter of an 
hour; food must be eaten immediately or as soon after 
being cooked as possible; every kind of animal food 
should be eliminated from tl^e table; even fish and game 
should not be used; milk, butter, €ggs, fats and oils (ex- 
cepting vegetable oils) should be prohibited; vegetables, 
grains and fruits that are produced in each State alone 
should be used. The electric condition of ever^^thing 
on earth will be changed, therefore the products of the 
soil in our immediate vicinity are the best to keep the 
human system in a positive state. When the human 
organism is in a strictly positive condition it is impossi- 
ble to contract disease. All persons in a negative state 
to their surroundings will be the first to fall victims of 
the scourge. The flesh-eater and alcholic-imbiber will 
go hand in hand together to their grave, for their blood 
will become impure and inflamed, and therefore be in a 
negative state and necessarily unable to combat disease. 
Bear in mind, no part of the world will be exempt from 
the ravages of the pla<^ue. The frigid homes of the 
Esquimaux will bo invaded by the demon of death, and 
desolation will be as apparent there in that frozen land 
as in the sun-scorched land of Africa. It will penetrate 
alike the jungles of India and the civilized homes of 
America. The Mongolian race will suffer most, for it 
is without doubt the most ancient. Races are like em- 
pires —they have their rise, decline and fall. 



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CHAPTER III. 

China will be depopulated, or nearly so, and when the 
plague breaks out in 1881, in their country, hordes of 
Asiatics will crowd their ships and flee their country, 
to .*ipread the loathsome hoi'i'or over every land they 
turn to. Every island in the Pacific will be swarming 
with the Mongolians, and they will at last reach the 
Pacific States, and then we must sufler a destruction of 
life without a parallel in the annals of American history. 
I say that the inhabitants of the plague-stricken districts 
will reach here unless we are vigilant in using pre- 
cautionary measures to keep them back. I am not 
actuated by any feelings of prejudice against any par- 
ticular race, but the voice of the Hosts of the Heavens 
should be hearkened unto and if from a mathematical 
scheme we can deduce certain facts portentous to the 
Caucasian race, they should be given and followed. If 
we neglect precautionary measures the whole force of 
the plague will perhaps sweep fifteen millions of the 
inhabitants of America into their graves. In mortality 
the East India country will be next in order of magni- 
tude to China; Africa next, Europe next, and America 
next. The Atlantic States will suffer more than the Pa- 
cific, South Ameri^'a more than North America, and 
California will be the last and least sufferer of this most 
malignant plague era the world has ever known. The 
plague is not only what the perihelia brings us, but it 
will be accompanied by war, discord, civil strife, floods, 
inundations, and, in seven-tentls of the world, drought; 
and unless extraordinary provision is made to quell 
great uprisings, anarchy, with all its fearful horrors, 
will reign from 1880 till 11S88. General Grant will be 
elected President in 1880, and will be re-elected in 1884, 
unless all political parties form a coalition to defeat him 
In 1887 Grant will have an evil birth-day. If he is wise 
he will not travel by rail that year, for death will stand 



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guard over every line of railroad In the country. If he 
survive the momentous events of 1887, he will have a 
series of years of peace and Happiness, and he will die 
idolized by our own country, respected and honored by 
the world. In 1887 the ^'Star of Bethlehem will once 
more be seen in *' Cassiopia's Chair, '* and it will be ac- 
companied by a total eclipse of the sun and moon. This 
star only makes its appearance every 315 years. It will 
appear and illumine the heavens, and exceed in brilliancy 
even Jupiter, when in opposition to the sun, and there- 
fore nearer to the earth and brightest. The marvelous 
brilliancy of the " Star of Bethlehem " in 1887 will sur- 
pass any of its previous visitations. It will be seen even 
at noon-day, shining with a quick flashing light the en- 
tire year, after which it will gradually decrease in 
brightness and finally disappear, not to be seen in 
our heavens till the year 2202 or three hundred and 
fifteen years from 1887. This star first attracted the 
attention of modern Astronomers in the year 1572. 
It was then called a new star. It was no new star, 
however, for this was the star that shone so brightly 
4 B. C, and was the star that illumined the 
heavens at the Nativity of Christ. It has reappeared 
every 315 years since, and every educated Astrol- 
oger is certain that it will appear in AuguSt 1887. The 
appearance of this star, accompanied as it will be 
by solar and lunar eclipse, together with the baleful in- 
fluence that follows the positions that Mars and Saturn 
will occupy, will cause an universal war and portentious 
floods and fearful shipwrecks. North America will be 
involved in civil strife, and a reign of terror will prevail 
in the Atlantic States, unless a Napoleon arises to quell 
it. There will be a war of classes; the rich will array 
themselves against the poor, alid vice versa. During 
those terrible days the Pacific States will be in a veritable 
Paradise of peace compared to the hellish strife that will 
be waging throughout the world. 



C^o^:^) 



SUPPLEMENT TO THE 

•VOICE OF THE STARS. 



Since printing the <* Voice of the Stars'^ the author has 
decided to publish this supplement. 

Never in the history of scientific literature has any 
book met with such bitter, rancorous and bigotted op- 
position as this pamphlet. To the astronomers who 
have lost their tempers in their vain efforts to parry the 
force of the prophecies, the author requests them to tako 
issue with him and confute, if they can, the proposition 
made that the Newtonian system of astronomy is false 
in spirit, and in fact as herein demonstrated both by ge- 
ometry and the law of optics. To the editors, professors, 
and lecturers who have willfully misconstrued the au- 
thor's motives he forgives one and all — kno wing that hu- 
naanum est errare. 



CHAPTER IV. 

The author knows many who belieye that the events 
predicted (even if they should be fulfilled) would have 
happened precisely the same even if the great planets 
were not approaching their perihelia. An assertion 
should have no weight unless a series of examples can 
be shown, that plagues and the calamities enun rated 
have happened without the malific planets and the fixed 
stars having the same nature, being in conjunction 
55;quare or opposition to each other or the sun. If on 



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the other hand it can be shown that every great war, 
plague, epidemic, fire and flood, with which the world 
is familiar, occurs only when those planets and fixed 
stars occupy or are nearing the relative positions de- 
scribed, an irrefutable fact or law is established. This 
can be done by any mathematician by finding the po- 
sitions the planets occupied shortly before, and on any 
remarkable era eucIi as the plague for instance. It is 
not alone to the coincident perihelion periods of the 
great planets named, must we lo^k to for all the evil ef- 
fects W'hich this earth has sutTered. Prof. Brorsen's 
comet has appeared this year during the first quarter, 
and on the 30th of June, 1879; Mars will be in conjunc- 
tion with Saturn and the destruction of life which the 
sheep will suffer by disease follows, and also the break- 
ing out again of the yellow fever in the South. Comets 
when they precede the conjunction of large planets or | 
even their opposition enhance the evil whatever that | 
may be. In 407 A. D., a comet was visable for months, 
and there was a conjunction of Uranus and Jupiter. 
In 590 another coinet ajipeared and Saturn was in con- 
Junction W'ith Jupiter. In 1554 Saturn again joined Ju- 
piter. In 1554, 1556 and 1557 comets and Uranus in op- 
position to Saturn. 

In 1563-4 when plague prevailed in London, tliere ap- 
peared a comet and Saturn w^as joined with Jupiter, 
In 1580 to 1583, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter were in 
conjunction; 1593, Saturn in opposition to Jupiter. In 
1596-7, comets and Uranus in conjunction with Jupiter. 
In 1600 a comet and Saturn conjoined with Jupiter and 
both in opposition to Uranus. These were all periods of 
plague or pestilence. 534 B. C, and 430 B. C, the 
plague made its appearance in Carthage, and the people 
offered their children as sacrifices to appease the sup- 
posed anger of their gods; the cOTijimction of Mars and 
Saturn and comets were visible at that time. In 18 A. 
D., Rome was depopulated at the rate of 10,000 dail3'; 
then Uranus and Mars conjoined, and culminated in the 



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In 1348 comet and Mars in oi^positioa to Saturn and 
20,000 died in the city of London alone from the plague. 
In 1478 Mars and Uranus in conjunction with Saturn^ 
the exact number that died with the plague that year is 
not known, but it has been stated that more died that 
year than died from fifteen v'ears of continued war. 
More than 20,000 persons perished in 1603- -4, and more 
than 35,000 in 162.5. In 1665, 100,000 persons died in 
Enghmd alone. In 1720--1, 80,000 persons died in Per- 
sia, and 800,000 in Egypt were carried oft* by that dread- 
ful scourge tho plague, and in every one of tliose times 
the malitic planets were in evil aspect. 

If in view of these facts if so-called scientists still re- 
main blinded by bigotry and refuse to investigate the 
true science of the stars, truth is not acceptable to them. 
It seems incredible that any scientific person can really 
believe in the accuracy of the table of astronomical re- 
fraction and parallax as given by Ta Place, and accepted 
by Sir Johti Herschel and all modern astronomers. It 
is surprising that many scientific gentlemen intelligent 
on everything else, scout the idea that the planets have 
any influence in producing any physical action upon 
the earth, and at the same time assert that the moon 
does exert great influence, for it raises the tides to the 
bight of seventy-eight feet at the head waters of the 
Bay of Fundy. 

How any one can admit that a small secondary planet 
in size only the one-fiftieth the bulk of the earth, exerts 
a tremendous physical powder upon the waters of the 
earth and at the same time deny that Jupiter, the largest 
ef the primaries, 1,280 times larger than the earth, exerts no influ- 
ence, has no power to produce any phygical effect upon the earth by 
electrlcnl atti action or otherwise, is a mysteiy I leave to the domain 
of mental philosophy. The gross materiid substances of the planets 
are alone considered and magnified, and the real motive and sustain- 
ing force is ignored, i. e., electricity. We are all taught to believo 
that centrifugal force and centripetal force are of equal power> and 
we are told that these two forces of optosite natures keep the plan" 
ets from flying off on tangents and from being drawing into the sun. 
If th3 forces were not equnl in power, we are told, one of these ef- 
fects would follow the suspension of either force. 



17 THE VOICE OF THE STARS. 

Now let us see if these forces are as astronomers assert 
of equal power. In simple terms we are told that there 
is an attraction and repulsion existing between each 
planet and the sun, and the centrifugal force of a planet 
to get away from the sun is as great as the attractive or 
centripetal force of the sun to draw the planet toward 
and into it; hence, the planet should not get any further 
away from the sun or any nearer to that body, but 
should remain throughout its entire orbit at an equal 
distance from the sun forever. 



CHAPTER V. 



But the system of astronomy, as taught to-day, tells 
us that the earth is two millions of miles nearer the sun 
January 1st, than it is July 1st of each year. How can 
the forces be of equal power and at the same time once 
each year, each one of these forces asserts its superior- 
ity? If the forces are equal, how is it that our earth is 
permitted to wander two millions of miles further away 
from the sun July 1st every year, and every January 
1st, it is permitted or does so without permission ap- 
proach two millions of miles nearer to the sun? This 
fact tends to prove that the planets act independently 
and are not governed by the forces stated. We are told 
that if it were not for the centripetal force all of|the 
planets of the solar system would fly off at right angles, 
and go rushing head long and tail long through space. 
How then is it that this same force allows a planet to^go 
t^wo millions of miles further away from it at any one 
time each year without diminishing its power? For 
gurely this power does not diminish in proportion to 
the squares of distance; for if it did our earth next July 
1st, when it reaches its Aphilion would leave it and go 
rushing through space, and bid good-by to the sun for- 
ever. 



THE VOICE OF THE STARS. 18 

Take the otber horn of the dilemma and the absurd- 
ity is just as great, for we are told that if the centrifugal 
force of the planets was to cease or be diminished from 
any cause, t^e planets would fall into the body of thd 
sun. Now the centrifugal force of every planet dimin 
ishes as it approaches its Aphilion, for if it did not i^ 
would go on a tangent and would not be attracted to- 
ward its perihelion. Therefore, as we are told by every 
standard work on astronomy, that the momentum of 
every planet is enhanced as it nears its perihelion or ap- 
proaches that point in its orbit nearest the sun, what 
prevents it falling into that bod^'^ when it has reached its 
perihelion? It cannot be its repulsive power or centri- 
fugal force, for it has been shown that that power de- 
creases in proportion to the squares of distance from the 
Aphilion. The so called laws of gravitation as described 
by Sir Isaac Newton, do not stand the test of honest criti- 
cism, and therefv^re the superstructure of astronomy must 
be torn down and a new and correct temple erected 
instead. 

Now let ua see how a comet will fare as regards 
these forces. Take the comet of 1682 whose tail astron- 
omers have measured and found to have been 130 mil- 
lions of miles in length. A comet is a much lighter 
body than any planet, still it seems that it can travel 
with impunity a thousand millions of miles farther 
away from the sun and still keep its orbit, as did the one 
of 1682. It does seem to any thinking person that a 
gaseous body that should happen to get within one 
hundred millions of miles nearer the sun, at any time, 
would inevitably be drawn into it, for no one will at- 
tempt to say that the comet's centrifugal force equals 
the centripetal force of the sun. Also take the planet 
Mercury whose orbit is the most excentric of any pri- 
mary, and at all times he is nearer the sun than any 
other planet; he is over seven millions of miles nearer 
the sun we are taught, when in his perihelion than when 
in his Aphilion. The two forces do not exist as stated 
outside the imagination of astronomers. The true force 
which sustains the planets in their orbits, however ex- 



19 THE VOICE OF THE STARS. 

centric they may be, is the great universai ocean of 
electricity which surrounds them. The nature of this 
electric ocean is positive in action, having no other than 
attractive power. In fact there is no other force in the 
universe — one force and one only; this is sufficient. 
The orbit of each planet is an electric eircle, or elipses, 
out of which it is impossible to go. Permit an illustra- 
tion: Imagine a grooved circle of ruagnetized iron, say 
three feet in diameter, and a small steel ball two inches 
in diameter placed in the groove of that circle; now turn 
the circle and as you do so the small ball revolves or 
falls back down the groove in an opposite direction to 
that which the circle is turned. 

It is this magnetic ocean which surrounds each planet 
that moves and causes the planet which rests upon its 
bosom to move independent of the so-called centripetal 
force of the sun, for the sun is sustained in the same 
way. The meteors which fall to the earth are only elec- 
tric scintillations, and are not drawn from the wreck of 
worlds far removed from us. The meteors fly from the 
electric zone which surrounds our earth and millions of 
them every year fall to the earth and in its oceans, with- 
out any one observing their fall. The light and heat 
which the sun imparts to the electric planetary zones 
keeps them in perfect action. There are some planets 
which are dark bodies floating through space, 
and as they receive no light the presumption is strong 
that the electricity w^iich surrounds them is sluggish 
and not so perfect in action, or favorable to the develop- 
ment of animal life. 

We are told that the earth revolves in its orbit at the 
immense rate of 68,000 miles an hour, nearly 19 miles a 
second. This is not so ; but even if it were true, nothing 
bat the electric cohesion of the earth with the electric 
girdle which surrounds it could prevent it from flying 
into millions of fragments. 

All that we know of electricity is that it is the great 
force which produces and sustains animal and vegetable 
life and ponderable matter. The general ignorance of 



THE VOICE OF THE STARS. 20 

this great principle is nearly as dense as is the Digger 
Indian's knowledge of geometry. 

("Electricity is imponderable; it cannot be weighed. 
2,000,000 cubic feet of it would not weigh as much as 
the lightest feather. It ramifies every department of 
nature; it is the executive officer of God. Its nature is 
essentially cold, and yet how remarkably hot; hotter 
than the most intensely ignited solids. The only real 
knowledge we possess of this invisible agent of the Deity 
is its omnipotent power. It is the most active principle 
of which we are cognizant; it is forever at work — never at 
rest. There are difierent kinds of electricity; each planet 
has its own peculiar and suitable kind. The planets 
farthest removed from the sun have the least active and 
those nearest the most active electrical elements. All 
the primaries when in conjunction with the sun, or 
when any two are in conjunction, much disease on our 
globe follows. Hence, after June 30, 1879, measles, 
small-pox and dangerous epidemic fevers will destroy 
thousands of lives in this country; it will also cause epi- 
demic disease in sheep. The conjunction in this coun- 
try falls in the ''6th house. '^ 



CHAPTER VI. 



When Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter are in 
conjunction with the sun, or even two of the large plan- 
ets occupy that position, the electric equilibrium of that 
planet is disturbed, and therefore every planet is thereby 
atfected in exact proportion to the squares of their dis- 
tances. The cause which produces the physical changes 
and diseases is owing to the intensely cold nature of the 
planets conjoining with the sun, Neptune, we are in- 
formed, receives 900 times less light and heat than we 



ti THE VOICE OF THE STARS. 

receive; Uranus 368 times, Saturn 90 times and Jupiter 
45 times less than we receive on earth. The obvious 
deduction from this fact is that the changed condition 
of our atmosphere consequent upon the interference 
vk^ith or abstraction of the usual amount of liglit and 
heat will be destructive to life and health in our globe, 
Suppose, for instance, that our earth received 900 times 
less light and heat for even a few seconds only. What 
would be the result? Wliy the total destruction of ani- 
mal life would surely follow such achangje. 

When two or more great planets are in exact helio- 
centric conjunction they absorb the life-ffiving principle 
of that body, and giving nothing back in return of a like 
nature, the atmospheres of the whole planetary system 
becomes vitiated and remains in that condition until the 
dreadful incubus is removed, i. e., by the planets leav- 
ing their perihelia and approaching their aphilia. Now 
the motions of planets are much slower when approach- 
ing their aphilia than when they move in the direction 
of their perihelia, and consequently diseases and great 
physical commotion takes place, the like of which is 
sometimes chronicled in the death of worlds. 

The planets which are to conjoin are of a cold nature 
and they produce cold diseases. The plague is essen- 
tially a cold disease, is thriving best in cold, wet weather, 
and therefore we cannot entirely escape it, though we 
may counteract in a great measure its fearful potency 
by observing correct sanitary laws. 

These statements are not made to needlessly alarm the 
country, though I pray to heaven the country may 
awaken to a knowledge of the impending dangers that 
too soon, alas! will be here ravaging the land. Prepa- 
ration should be made in every city and town to be in 
lis good sanitary condition of cleanliness as it is possible 
to meet and war with disease, when the very air be- 
comes laden with deadly virus. The plague is now on 
this continent: tens of thousands havealready died with 
it in Brazil. No time is to be lost if we mean resistance. 
All vaults and sewers should be cleaned immediately; 
all the dead in the cemeteries should be burned, and 



THE VOICE OF THE STARS. 23 

those who will die from now till 1887 should be cremated* 
Nothing is lost by being clean, therefore do not havo 
any tilth, in, around or about your premises. This ad- 
monition is intended for municipal governments as well 
as priv^ate individuals. When nations or communities 
become filthj'^ in their habits or surrondings and persisi 
in so remaining, it is a blessing when the plague sweeps 
them away. If it were not for the dirty, filthy condi- 
tion of Memphis and Grenada and their miserably de- 
fective sewerage, the mortality from yellow-fever would 
have been less. The same state of afltairs exists there 
to-day and when the warm weather comes, the yellow- 
fever will break out again. Nearly all the virulent epi^ 
demies and obnoxious diseases fatten and thrive upon 
decaying animal matter, and the foul gasses of out 
sewers and vaults are the most active agents in spread- 
ing loathsome diseases ov^er the land. We should not 
trade with China, Russia or Brazil, till after 1887. But 
we will and disease will be imported here in the filthy 
rags we buy off Russia, or by our commercial relations 
with China and Brazil. We buy Irom §10,000,000 to 
$12,000,000 worth of dirty— perhaps plaguey rags from 
Russia each year. -^Marseilles bought rags uf Russia in 
1720 and she 'lostj 52,000 out of the 75,000 inhabitants 
that lived there. 



CHAPTER VII. 



There is no Astronomer living nor any Astronomical 
work published that gives the true distance of the sun 
and planets from the earth. The doctrine of astronomi- 
cal refraction and parallax ps given by La Place and ac- 
cepted by Sir John Herschel and all modern astrono- 



23 THE VOICE OF THE STARS. 

mers is false. They make no allowance for a difference 
in refrangibility that exists between the red rays of Mars 
and the sun and the white rays of Jupiter, the moon 
and the other planets. Every person knows, or should 
know, that the red ra\^s of light are more refrangible 
than the white Anyone can satisfy himself on this point 
by placing a red and white stick of sealing wax in a 
glass of water side by side, and he will observe that the 
red wax will appear much more crooked than the other. 
They forget that the mere changes of the barometer and 
thermometer bear no proportion to the refrangibility 
produced by the varying range of the colors of the 
planets. 

The true amount of refraction is not understood by 
astronomers, hence their grave mistakes, also as the 
angles of incidence and reflection are not equal, all ob- 
servd,tions made on the "planet Mars to determine the 
distance of the sun are entirely worthless. It is this fact 
that has led them to treat the mere difference between 
refraction above the horizon and the parallax in alti- 
tude of any observed body, as, absolutely, and essen- 
tially pure parallax, and in this way they have made 
many grave errors; thus they conclude that the mean 
parallax of the moon is about 57 minutes and her dis- 
tance about 237,000 miles. The parallax of the sun is 
said to be 9 seconds, and therefore his distance about 
91,000,000 of miles. The refraction of Mars is much 
more than any other heavenly body, and yet this fact 
has been ignoi'ed by all astronomers in the past and 
will be until they read this pamphlet. 

On the 30th of June, 1879,^ Mars will be in conjunc- 
tion with Saturn when his (Mars) true distance may be 
taken, but if his greater refrangibility is left out of the 
other calculations based as they are in error, they will be 
worthless. Prof. Vince in his "Elements of Astron- 
omy" (p. 58) says that the zenith distances being ob- 
served "the horizontal parallax of Mars w^as 23.6 
sec," and from this he infers the horizontal parallax 
of the sun. It never occurs^to him that the refraction 
of Mars is so great from the red rays he casts, that on 



THE VOICP: of the stars. 24 

their entering our atmosphere their sine is nearly equal 
to % of the sine of the angle of incidence, let that be 
whatever it may. The true distances and motions of the 
sun and moon. The maximum distance of the sun dif- 
fers from the minumum distance by 23,916.61 miles. 

Then as the diff )renee=-23,9l6.61 miles 1 a. c. 5.^>218004 

Is to the dift'ei'ce of extreme angularinotions =232.5" j 2.oi >4230 

So is the mean distance=3D500o.5, 5.5o2o003 

To the mean daily motion of the sun=8548.33" 3.55 0240 

This is equal to 59 min. 8,33 sec, which is the exact 
amount of the daily mean motion of the sun--' 

Now it will be seen that the slightest change in the max- 
imum or minimum distance of the sun will throw this 
out considerable, and it follows, beyond dispute, that 
my numbers are exactly true. 

To find the daily mean motion of the moon: The ma- 
jor distance being 37180 miles and the minor distance 
being 28477 miles, the difierence is 8,703 miles. Then: 
As the difference=8703 mile?, a. c. 6.0o('3309 

i^*#o the difference of daily motion at these extreme) 

points=3^ 4l;3l2, }- 0.5432135 

So is the mean distanee=S28,285 miles, j 4.51 i25l0 



To the daily mean motion=13*' .17b39-=l3^ 10' 35" I.llt7a54 

And this is known to be exactly the ddiilj angular 
tropical movement of the moon. 

The true distance of the sun and also his semi-diame- 
ter: 

1st — From the sun's perigree take his true longitude 
and substract the remainder from 90^, the result will be 
his anomaly. 

2d— Then say "as radius, sine 90*=, is to 11958.5. So 
is the sine of the anomaly to the correction;" which ap- 
plied to his mean distance will give his true distance. 

3d — Say "as 11959.5 are to the increment of the semi- 
diameter=16.r', so is the ^correction' of the distance to 
the 'correction' of the semi-diameter;" which applied to 
the mean of the semi-diameter will give the true semi- 
diameter. 

*Thiis 360'*=.985(347a=59' 8.SS" 
305.242284. 



85 THE VOICE OF THE STARS. 

I claim that the sun instead of being 91,000,000 of 
miles is only 365,006.5 miles from the earth — in proof 
Of which statement I adduce the following evidence: 
The mean motion of Mercury is about 58* 1'* when in 
inferior conjunction with the sun and retrograde, but 
when in superior conjunction, and direct, it is HI' 43". 
Now add the mean motion retrograde, 58':!'^ 

To the motion of the suu when in inferior conj'n, 59';8'- 



117:9=7029" 



Mean motion direct in superior conjunction, 111:43 
Motion of the sun substract, 59:8 



52:35=3155 



2)10184 
5092 

Then: 7029— 5092=1937, and we say that 5092:1931,u 
861043: 137,341 miles; which is the semi-diameter of the 
orbit of Mercury. The mean of the earth, minus the. 
eemi-diameter of the same gives us 361,043 miles for the 
distance of the surface of the earth from the sun; that 
being the place from which the planet is observed. If 
we multiply 365006.5, or the mean distance of the sun, 
by .3870981 we have 141,300: from which, if we take 
1^3 (the semi-diameter of the earth) we get 137,337 
miles; which differs only four miles from the 137,341 
miles, shown to be the semi-diameter of the orbit of 
Mercury. 

Now take Venus: The mean motion of this planet, 
when in inferior conjunction with the sun, is 36' 47"; 
ftnd, when in superior conjunction with the sun, it is 
T4' 45". To the former, being retrograde, ad/i the sun's 
daily mean motion, 59':8", and we ha^-e 95' 55"=5755, 
from the latter subtract the sun's motion, and we have 
the separate motion, 15' 37", =9' 37". Now^ half the sum 
of these two motions is 3346"; and the differenr-e be- 
tween this half and the lesser motion is 2409" which is 



THE VOICE OF THE STARS. 26 



equal to the eftectof a distance equal to the semi-diame- 
ter of the orbit of Venus. 

Thus: As 3346:2409::961,043 miles; 25993S miles; which 
is the semi-diameter of the orbit of Venus. Now as in 
the case of Mercury I will take the proportionate dis- 
tance of Venus, which is according to Sir John Her- 
schel — 7233316, and multiply it into the distance of the 
earth— 365006.5, and we get the sum of 364,020; which, 
if lessened by the semi diameter of the earth, or 3963, 
gives us 260,057; which differs from the semi-diameter 
of Venus' orbit by only 119 miles. Next take Mars: 
We find that his mean motion, when in opposition, is 
21' 41"; and the daily mean motion when in conjunc- 
tion is 42':38".4. This gives us when treated as the 
other planets have been, 4849" to 989.6". And we find 
that the distance of Mars, when in opposition, is 556,- 
156 miles, and his distance, when in conjunction, is 
917,199 miles. Then we find that as 917,199 are to 187,- 
187, or Mar's distance, in opposition, 4849" to 989.6". 
Lastl3^ we find Sir John Herschel's proportionate dis» 
tance of Mars or 1.5236923, when multiplied into the 
distance of the earth, viz: 365006.5, produces absolutely 
the same figures for the semi-diameter of his orbit, viz: 
556,156 miles. 

In the same way Jupiter agrees to within 198 miles, 
although his distance is 1,899,241 miles. Surely these 
calculations cannot be mere coincidences, but on the 
contrary they demonstrate the absolute correctness of 
the true distance of the sun with a mathematical nicety 
foreign to the old principle of computation as practiced 
by Sir Isaac Newton, and folio vved by all the astrono- 
mers of the world to-day. It is unnecessary to apply 
the same rules to the other planets, for a like result fol- 
lows the ai^lication of these rules to every planet in 
our system. Astronomers deny that the moon and earth 
move at the same rate of speed through space. I will 
now demonstrate that they do, and in such a plain man- 
ner that any ordinary intelligent school boy will know 
that they do. Now, the mean distance of the moon is 27,- 
804 miles, instead of 240,000 miles; this gives her mo- 



%7 THE VOICE OF THE STARS. 

tion through space 171,556 miles ia forming her circle 
around the earth, at her mean distance; and this too is 
exactly the same rate of motion as that of the earth, be- 
ing 6279,2 miles per diem. But the distance the earth 
moves through in forming one circle round the sun 
(one year) is in the ratio of exactly 

2,293.400 

=-. 1336823. 

171,556 
The length of the year in time, which is that of the 
earth^s circle is 365.242264 days. The length of the 
moon's circle in time is according to Sir J. Herschel, 
27d., 7h., 43m., ll.Ssec. which in decimal form will be 
just 27.32166d. Now 

365.242264 

= 13.36823. 

27.32166 
The earth's distance is in exactly the ratio with that 
of the moon. 
For the earth, 365,006.5 miles 



= 13.36823. 



For the moon, 27.304 miles 

The reader will observe that the quotient agreeing in 
each of these cases proves beyond doubt that it is not a 
mere accidental coincidence, but in it the hand of the 
Supreme Architect can be seen. The apparent angular 
motion of the earth and the moon bears exactly th« 
same ratio or proportion. The moon moves just 
13*^ 1764 daily; that is her daily mean motion. The 
earth moves in one day O'^ 98565, which is his mean 
motion. Now if we divide this angular motion of the 
moon by that of the earth, we obtain the same result aa 
above. For, 

W 1764 n 

^ 13.36823. 

0*^ 98565 



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CHAPTER VII. 



The'Newtonian system of astronomy is erroneous. 
I will now proceed to demonstrate this startling asser- 
tion by the law of optics. A man six feet high will van- 
ish or become invisible at 3,000 times his height, or six 
feet multiplied by 3,000 — 18,000 feet =6,000 yards 
= 33^ miles nearly minus 160 yards. The same law 
applies as well to planets as to anything else and wq 
will apply this law to Venus. Astronomers say thai 
this planet's diameter is 7,727.9 miles. Her vanishing 
point would be 23,183,700 miles, beyond which point it 
would be impossible to see her. Prof. Proctor, F. R. 
A. S., says that she was on the 30th of March, 1873, 
40,364,000 miles away and therefore entirely invisible. 
Now on that date she was at her greatest brilliancy and 
the author and thousands of others saw her. The dec- 
laration made, namely, that we saw Venus with the 
naked eye 17,000,000 of miles farther away than that 
planet's vanishing point is ridiculous. Of what value 
are| other calculations from this gentleman? Prof. 
Proctor is selected because he is a leading authority in 
astronomical science, and not because of any prejudice 
against the gentleman, for the author disclaims holding 
any toward any scientific scholar. 

Now see how Mars fares when the same la?i^ is ap- 
plied to him. Sir J. Herschel gives the diameter of thia 
planet as 4,098 miles which multiplied by 3,000 gives 
us 12,294,000 as to the point beyond which he should 
become invisible. The mean distance of Mars from the 
sun is said to be 139,153,022 miles; and if we take from 
this distance that given as the earth's from the sun, 



29 THE VOICE OP THE STARS. 

91,328,600, it follows that Mars when at about his near- 
est point is 47,825,022 miles from the earth. He is then 
85,531,022 miles beyond his vanishing point, and of 
course he should be invisible. Is he invisible? No; 
but on the contrary he can be plainly seen by the naked 
eye. Furthermore, on the 25th of next June, 1879, this 
planet Mars will be about 137,435,000 miles awa^^ from 
ttie earth — according to the Newtonian method of com- 
puting distances — and, therefore, the people in Great 
Britain — and of course this includes Prof. Proctor F. R, 
A. S. — will have the pleasure of seeing this planet 125,- 
000,000 of miles beyond his vanishing point. Again the 
same people (on the same day at any time before 3:46 
A. M., this is the time the sun rises in England on the 
25th of June, 1879), will see Jupiter after he has ex- 
ceeded his vanishing point by 212,000,000 of miles, for 
he will be about 470,000,000 of miles from the earth, 
according to the Newtonian method of computing dis- 
feances. 

As for Saturn the thing becomes prepotserous. We 
will in this country be able to see him on the 25th of 
December, 1879, when he will be, according to the hum- 
bug sj^stem of computing distances 959,000,000 of miles 
from the earth and therefore we will see him after he 
has left the range of vision by not less than 722,000,000 
of miles. How these astronomical * 'confidence" men 
must roar with laughter when they reflect upon these 
absurdities. Just think for one moment of the superb 
^ 'cheek" of these learned asses. Now if the planets 
and sun are as far away from the earth as astronomi- 
cal scliolars and books inform us, how is it that they are 
visible to the naked eye of man? O, ye sublime astron- 
omical frauds! Go teach astronomy to the Brazilian ba- 
boon; tell him, but do not tell us that w^e see V^enus 
17,000,000, Mars, 125,000,000, Jupiter 212,000,000 and 
8aturn at 722,000,000 of miles beyond their vanishing 
points* These same brainless gentry condemn without 
investigation the science of Astrology. But I thank 
^od, they never attempted an investigation, for if backed 



THE VOICE OF THE STARS. 30 

up by the most approved instruments and aided by 
every n\echanical contrivance genius has invented, they 
have blundered, are blundering, and are determined to 
blunder in the future in their own special studies, as- 
trology would fare badly at their hands. They would 
only bring o(iium upr>n it and make it appear as sense- 
less and as open to ridicule as astronomy as they teach 
it is, to those who believe in the law of optics. The 
publication of this pamphlet will destroy the value of 
every astronomical work that treats on the magnitude 
and distances of the heavenly bodies. In 1880 the au- 
thor will publish his true system of astronomy at a price 
the poorest may purchase. 

In conclusion — the stars should be understood, for 
they are tlie messengers of God, and their beautiful lan- 
guage and mysteries are made plain to all who chose to 
be instructed. The stars they are the watchfires of 
heaven whose glorious lights warn mankind from the 
perilous path of evil life. The stars they teach that, when 
the heavy hand of sorrow is laid upon us to look up 
into and through their celestial rays to the Great Power 
beyond. The stars they are the monitors of mankind; 
they are the beautiful guardian angels that God speaks 
through to the inhabitants of earth. The stars» the 
glorious stars, teach by their heavenly configurations 
that we should mend our lives and prepare for the great 
physical and electric changes that are soon to sweep 
everything impure from the face of the earth. 




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